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- Skill Doesn’t Matter If You Lack Taste http://nathanbarry.com/skill-doesnt-matter-if-you-lack-taste/ 42 comments
- Skills Matter De-Platforms Scala Leader John DeGoes https://twitter.com/skillsmatter/status/1168944236181557254 2 comments
- Does anyone know what's going on with Skills Matter? I can't access any Haskell eXchange videos. https://skillsmatter.com/ 3 comments haskell
- Skills Matter relaunching - is Haskell eXchange 2020 back on? https://skillsmatter.com/ 4 comments haskell
- The 4 Finance Skills Every Leader Needs No Matter Their Industry https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/finance-skills 2 comments business
- The Horrors Lurking in your Legacy Codebase – Skills Matter https://medium.com/skills-matter/the-horrors-lurking-in-your-legacy-codebase-616d7d631f35 18 comments programming
- Is "going small" a matter of actual size or skill? https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/5atwle/is_going_small_a_matter_of_actual_size_or_skill/ 10 comments nba
- The best way to make a website mobile friendly, no matter your skill level https://thomascannon.me/posts/the-best-way-to-make-a-website-mobile-friendly/ 4 comments webdev
- [Video at Haskell X, Skills Matter] Structural Typing for Structured Products https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5297-structural-typing-forstructured-products 5 comments haskell
- Skills Matter : In The Brain of Edsko de Vries: Lazy I/O and Alternatives in Haskell http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/lazy-io-and-alternatives-in-haskell/jd-7959 14 comments haskell
- VIDEO: Duncan Coutts on Cloud Haskell at the Haskell eXchange at Skills Matter Oct 10 http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/cloud-haskell/ac-5258 29 comments haskell
- VIDEO: Lennart Augustsson on 'Making EDSL's Fly at the Haskell eXchange at Skills Matter Oct 10 http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/making-edsls-fly/ac-5258 5 comments haskell
- Skills Matter : In The Brain of Rob Harrop: Is the Future Functional http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/qcon-future-functional/ 8 comments programming
- Bill Gates: 'Why software skills matter' http://www.information-age.com/article/2007/december_2007/gates_on_skills 9 comments programming
- Request feedback for a community where skills matter more than pedigree https://www.showprowess.com 9 comments growmybusiness
- Relatively skilled with computers, laptop continues going to sleep after 20 minutes no matter what I do https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/4mlzl2/relatively_skilled_with_computers_laptop/ 4 comments techsupport
- Simon Marlow joins Haskell eXchange line-up [October 9th, Skills Matter] http://skillsmatter.com/event-details/home/haskell-exchange/te-8015 8 comments haskell
- "Really good salespeople, and for that matter good con artists, have known about these skills and used them forever" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/health/12mimic.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Is There Really a Shortage of Skilled Workers? | "In sum, no matter how you cut the data, there is no evidence of skills shortages as a major cause of today’s elevated unemployment." http://www.epi.org/publication/shortage-skilled-workers/ 10 comments economy
- The Science of Winning Poker:math skills matters more than a poker face. http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424127887323610704578625812355516182.html 4 comments science
- Skills Matter : Scala eXchange 2012 19-11-12 (with a growing number of podcasts) http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-exchange-2012 4 comments scala
- College students (or anyone who needs good reading skills to make a living for that matter), can you read productively? http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/productive-reader.html 3 comments books
- When It Comes to Communication Skills—Maybe We’re Born with It. Children born with higher indications of white matter organization had better language skills five years later, suggesting that communication skills could be strongly linked to predisposed brain structure https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/neuroscientist-links-neural-networks-at-birth-to-language-learning-in-early-childhood/ 51 comments science
- Mind over matter. Study shows cognitive-behavioral coping skills training has positive effects on rheumatoid arthritis. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-08/wsu--ssc082214.php 4 comments science
- The Pill makes you brainier: It can swell grey matter essential for social skills and memory, say scientists http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1303984/the-pill-swell-grey-matter-essential-social-skills-memory.html 19 comments science
- Rudy Giuliani's incredible diplomacy skills include ejecting Yasir Arafat from a UN concert and saying Arafat signing peace accords doesn't matter because he's still a terrorist http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990ce7d6163df936a15753c1a963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print 10 comments politics
- “Charles is very dangerous,” Makhachev says. “He finishes opponents. But I believe in my skills. I’m ready for fight standing or ground - doesn’t matter.” I’m not scared of his jiu-jitsu, bc I have Sambo & I'll give hard time in striking. That’s why I’m going to knock him down & finish him. https://www.thenationalnews.com/sport/ufc/2022/10/06/people-will-understand-soon-makhachev-sure-of-his-title-prospects-against-oliveira/ 170 comments mma
- "Ask a bunch of programmers what social and technical factors matter to them the most, then rank the results... everyone wants a good manager and a good team culture, but they place training in the soft skills those things need almost at the bottom of the list." https://third-bit.com/2021/01/26/dead-last/ 51 comments programming
- Brain scans better forecast math learning in kids than do skill tests, study finds: Gray matter volume and connections between several brain regions better forecast 8-year-olds’ acquisition of math skills than their performance on standard math tests. http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/08/brain-scans-better-forecast-math-learning-in-kids.html 587 comments science
- Brain scans better forecast math learning in kids than do skill tests, study finds: Gray matter volume and connections between several brain regions better forecast 8-year-olds’ acquisition of math skills than their performance on standard math tests. http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/08/brain-scans-better-forecast-math-learning-in-kids.html 9 comments cogsci
- Scientists accidentally rediscover a major brain pathway after more than a century. The white matter tract is as long as 5.5cm and found at the back of the brain. It may be crucial for skills like reading. http://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2014/nov/17/major-brain-pathway-rediscovered 19 comments science
- Scientists have uncovered the first evidence that intensive instruction to improve reading skills in young children causes the brain to physically rewire itself, creating new white matter that improves communication within the brain. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091209121200.htm 11 comments cogsci
- [Chichester] Aaron Judge: "RBI and runs have always mattered to me. That's one thing that I try to take pride in. It may not be something you can measure, but driving a guy in is a skill." https://www.audacy.com/wfan/sports/yankees/aaron-judge-on-rbi-runs-scored-driving-a-guy-in-is-a-skill 335 comments baseball
- Research shows that children who have more screen time have lower structural integrity of white matter tracts in parts of the brain that support language and other emergent literacy skills. These skills include imagery and executive function -- the process involving mental control https://upnewsinfo.com/2019/11/04/screen-based-media-associated-with-structural-differences-in-the-brains-of-young-children/ 16 comments science
- New research shows how intensive instruction changes brain circuitry in struggling readers. A study found that when children with reading difficulties underwent an intensive tutoring program, their brains’ white matter strengthened, and their reading skills improved. http://www.washington.edu/news/2018/06/14/teachers-are-brain-engineers-uw-study-shows-how-intensive-instruction-changes-brain-circuitry-in-struggling-readers/ 11 comments science
- Netflix Chief Talent Officer Patty McCord: "'If we wanted only "A" players on our team, we had to be willing to let go of people whose skills no longer fit, no matter how valuable their contributions had once been." http://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr/ar/pr 46 comments technology
- dear reddit, if you have c++ skills, free time, and nothing against windows, please help the pyside project get the windows version done. last time, one of the developers told me it was a matter of compiling and building on a windows box while fixing includes and all and all. http://www.pyside.org/get-involved/ 55 comments programming
- Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking and wastes our resources. The cure for pseudophilosophy is a philosophical education. More specifically, it is a matter of developing the kind of basic critical thinking skills that are taught to philosophy undergraduates. https://psyche.co/ideas/pseudophilosophy-encourages-confused-self-indulgent-thinking 421 comments philosophy
- Hello I'm looking for people like me who'd be interested in collaborating in some form of online open source projects as a hobby or in the process of developing one's skill set. I'd really like your opinions on the matter and would like dedicated people to come together to build something exciting. None 4 comments opensource
- [Young] McCollum on Pop: “ extremely appreciative for all that he’s said and done, not only in off-the-court matters, but with the way he approaches the game. The way he teaches and reaches out to people. He’s got a special skill and a special talent, and the world is a better place because of it.” http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/spurs/article/spurs-popovich-nba-stars-embrace-social-10860377.php 27 comments nba